The Startup Conversation

What does it actually take to walk away from a good job? The Startup Conversation hosts real talks with people who left stable careers despite having — mortgages, families, and every reason to stay — to build something of their own. No venture capital, no Silicon Valley, no gurus. Butchers, builders, coffee roasters, trade-school founders, mostly from in and around Lexington, Kentucky. Every episode follows the Startup Sequence, a six-stage arc from the life they left to the one they built — including Max Q, which is the moment the whole thing nearly came apart. Hosted by a guy with golden handcuffs of his own, asking the questions on behalf of everyone still deciding. New conversations every other Tuesday.